IAJGS2016Discussion Mailing List: Reminder About ProQuest Day August 10, 2016

[Jan Meisels Allen (janmallen]

Each year at the IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy we are privileged to have selected ProQuest library databases available to us to use in the Resource Room.   We are the ONLY genealogy conference where the ProQuest Historical Newspapers, NewspaperArchive Library Edition, ProQuest Obituaries, Records of the US Immigration and Naturalization Service, Digital Sanborn Maps and this year adding Periodicals Archive Online are available.  We have one LONG day to take advantage of these wonderful resources:  Wednesday August 10 from 9:00 AM to 10:00 PM.  The resource room will stay open late for this one day to maximize everyone’s opportunity to take advantage of this conference resource.  As in with past conferences, if there is a long waiting line to use the computers there will be a sign-in sheet and users will be limited to the amount of time they can be at the computer at any one time.

ProQuest’s products are only available in academic and public libraries, and other institutional libraries.   This is a wonderful opportunity to enhance your research by taking advantage of these resources. Come to the resource room prepared with who and what you want to research to maximize the time at the computer.  While there will be 23 undedicated computers in the resource room from past experience there is a line out the door to take advantage of this conference resource.  Only the resource room computers will have the access link to ProQuest—your personal computer/tablet/smartphones will not be permitted to have the link—no exceptions!  To save printing paper, bring a USB drive to download copies of the articles that you want to save for printing and saving to your home computer after the conference.  Only conference attendees may take advantage of the resource room. 

Bill Forsyth, the senior product manager for ProQuest will be in the Resource Room during the day on August 10.  He will give a brief overview how to achieve the best search results twice during August 10—the times are 10:30 AM, 1:30 PM and  6:00PM and will be posted outside the Resource Room in addition to other announcements about this. Bill will also be available during the day on August 10 to assist IAJGS conference attendees with their research questions using the ProQuest resources.

 A different posting will list all of the other subscription and non-subscription databases that will be available in the Resource Room-including Ancestry.com, Findingmypast.com. Fold3.com, JewishData.com, MyHeritage.com, and many more. 

 ProQuest Databases Available in the Resource Room on August 10, 2016:

•    HeritageQuest Online

•    ProQuest Obituaries 

•    Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (all)

•    Digital Sanborn Maps

•    NewspaperArchive  See the title list at http://www.proquest.com/products-services/newsarchive.html  (it does not list the names of the newspapers currently as the list is being updated)

•    Periodicals Archive Online

 

New to the database list this year is the last one: Periodicals Archive Online.  It has a number of full-text Jewish periodicals, including American Jewish History (1893-2000), from the American Jewish Historical Society.

 •        ProQuest Historical Newspapers (all titles, including the Jewish newspapers)

 United States Newspapers

• The Arizona Republican—1890-1922
• Atlanta Constitution—1868-1985
• Austin American Statesman—1871-1976*
• The Baltimore Sun—1837-1989*
• The Boston Globe—1872-1983*
• The Chicago Tribune—1849-1992*
• The Christian Science Monitor—1908-2002*
• Cincinnati Enquirer—1841-1922
• Dayton Daily News—1898-1922
• Detroit Free Press—1831-1922
• Hartford Courant—1764-1989*
• Indianapolis Star—1903-1922
• Los Angeles Times—1881-1991*
• The Louisville Courier-Journal—1830-1922
• Nashville Tennessean—1812-1922
• The New York Times (1851-2012*) with Index —(1851-1993)
• New York Tribune / Herald Tribune—1841-1962
• Newsday—1940-1986
• San Francisco Chronicle—1865-1922
• St. Louis Post-Dispatch—1874-1922
• Wall Street Journal—1889-1998*
• Washington Post—1877-1999*

 International Newspapers

• Chinese Newspapers Collection—1832-1953
• South China Morning Post—1903-1996* 
• The Globe and Mail—1844-2012*
• The Guardian (1821-2003) & The Observer—(1791-2003)
• Irish Times (1859-2012*) & Weekly Irish Times—(1876-1958)
• Jerusalem Post—1932-2008
• The Scotsman—1817-1950
• The Times of India—1838-2006*
• Toronto Star—1894-2011*

 American Jewish Newspapers

• The American Hebrew & Jewish Messenger—1857-1922
• The American Israelite—1854-2000
• The Jewish Advocate—1905-1990
• Jewish Exponent—1887-1990

*Additional year of content added annually

Jan Meisels Allen

36^th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy Database Coordinator